{"id":75,"date":"2010-03-04T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/the-r-word.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T09:26:00","slug":"the-r-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/the-r-word.html","title":{"rendered":"The R-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m planning to write more about “the R-word” (and even the designation of the word retarded as “the R-word”) next week. For those of you interested in more reading right now, I’ll commend to you Louise Kinross’ comments on BLOOM:<\/p>\n

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“The R-Word: It’s a Hateful Slur That’s Got to Go<\/a>” and “The Tyranny of Two Words<\/a>“<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m planning to write more about “the R-word” (and even the designation of the word retarded as “the R-word”) next week. For those of you interested in more reading right now, I’ll commend to you Louise Kinross’ comments on BLOOM: “The R-Word: It’s a Hateful Slur That’s Got to Go” and “The Tyranny of Two…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-syndrome"],"yoast_head":"\nThe R-Word - Thin Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/03\/the-r-word.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The R-Word - Thin Places\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I’m planning to write more about “the R-word” (and even the designation of the word retarded as “the R-word”) next week. 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